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Question

My friend's studing English and she needs people to answer a few questions for her course work.
If you have a few spare minutes could you answer some questions based on articles in english.

1) Can you replace the numbers in the text with a/an, the or the zero article?

Something very strange happened to me the other night. As I was going home (1) man came up to me. He had (2) untidy hair and (3) paint all over his clothes. He told me he was (4) head of the local council and that he was offering me a job as (5) road sweeper. He said that (6) road sweeper earns a great deal of money and that I would have (7) responsibility for miles of roads. Well, I just said ‘No thanks’ and walked on. When I looked back he had stopped (8) woman. He was telling her that he was (9) President of the United States and that he wanted her to be (10) Defence Secretary.

2) Whats you native tounge? Does it use articles?
3) What languages have you studied?
4) How important do you think articles are?

Answer 1

1) Something very strange happened to me the other night. as i was going home (a) man came up to me. He had untidy hair and paint all over his clothes. He told me he was (the) head of the local council and that he was offering me a job as (a) road sweeper. He said that (a) road sweeper earns a great deal of money and that I waould have (the) responsibility for miles of roads. Well, I just said 'No thanks' and walked on. When I looked back he had stopped (a) woman. He was telling her that he was (the) President of the United States and that he wanted her to be (the) Defence Secretary.

2)My native tongue is Arabic (I'm Egyptian). Yes it does use articles.

3)I have studied English (most of my life), German, Spanish, and French.

4) They're important because they help you know whether the text/speech is talking about something/someone specific (eg. the man - a certain man) or just "a" man - any man.

Answer 2

1) Can you replace the numbers in the text with a/an, the or the zero article?

Something very strange happened to me the other night. As I was going home (a) man came up to me. He had (0) untidy hair and (0) paint all over his clothes. He told me he was (the) head of the local council and that he was offering me a job as (a) road sweeper. He said that (a) road sweeper earns a great deal of money and that I would have (a) responsibility for miles of roads. Well, I just said ‘No thanks’ and walked on. When I looked back he had stopped (a) woman. He was telling her that he was (the) President of the United States and that he wanted her to be (the) Defence Secretary.

2) Whats you native tounge? Does it use articles?
Turkish, no
3) What languages have you studied?
English
4) How important do you think articles are?
the articles give an understandable way.

a man =any man
the man= the known man
As you see they are important particles.

Answer 3

Something very strange happened to me the other night. As I was going home a man came up to me. He had untidy hair and paint all over his clothes. He told me he was head of the local council and that he was offering me a job as road sweeper. He said that a road sweeper earns a great deal of money and that I would have responsibility for miles of roads. Well, I just said ‘No thanks’ and walked on. When I looked back he had stopped a woman. He was telling her that he was President of the United States and that he wanted her to be Defence Secretary.

2) English. Yeh it uses articles but not in all cases
3) French for 6 years
4) Sometimes they are need to make things make sense/ for emphasis but they can often be missed out and the sentence/ paragraph can still be understood.

Answer 4

1) Something very strange happened to me the other night. As I was going home (a) man came up to me. He had (-) untidy hair and (-) paint all over his clothes. He told me he was (-) head of the local council and that he was offering me a job as (a) road sweeper. He said that (a) road sweeper earns a great deal of money and that I would have (-) responsibility for miles of roads. Well, I just said ‘No thanks’ and walked on. When I looked back he had stopped (a) woman. He was telling her that he was (-) President of the United States and that he wanted her to be (-) Defence Secretary.

2) French. Yes it uses articles.

3) English, German, Italian, Spanish

4) In French, very.

Answer 5

1) 1-a 2-0 3-0 4-the, although 0 or even a would also be possible 5-a 6-a although the would also work 7-the but I don't like the grammar of that clause 8-a 9-0 although the would also work 10-0 although the would also work

2) English, yeah

3) French, Italian (though I've forgotten just about everything), German, plus *very* minimally Japanese, Somali and Swahili

4) Not a very answerable question, but I'll go with "quite important".

Answer 6

I'll give you a general rule for the use of articles. If a word begins with a vowel and it's singular, you use 'an' if it starts with a constenant, you would use 'a'.

There are two pronunciations of the word 'the'. If it precedes a constenant, its the short version but if it precedes a word beginning with a vowel, you lengthen it so that it sounds like 'thee'.

Answer 7

1 ) a
2 ) 0
3 ) 0
4 ) the
5 ) a
6 ) a
7 ) the
8 ) a
9 ) the
10 ) the


2 Hokkien, no

3 Hokkien, Mandarin, English, Filipino

4 not really

Answer 8

HE HAD " 0 " UNTIDY HAIR - AND "0" PAINT ON HIS CLOTHES.
First answerer where are you going with this answer....?

Answer 9

1 - a
2 - 0
3 - 0
4 - the
5 - a
6 - a
7 - the
8 - a
9 - the
10 - the


2 English
English, French, Spanish


3 Very

Answer 10

Tell your friend to do her own homework